Tank.



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C. E. GARTRELL.

TANK.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31,1913.

1,213,183. Patented Jan. 23, 1917.

LINITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLIFFORD E. GARTBELL, OF WADSWORTH, TEXAS TANK.

Application filed July 31, 1913.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Cnrrronn Fl. GAR- rannn, a citizen of the United States, residing at ll' adsworth, in the county of Matagorda, State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tanks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain novel and useful improvements in tanks and has particular application to a tank provided with means-whereby all sediment and dirt which has flowed into the tank with the water will be automatically removed therefrom, the tank being to all intents and. purposes selfcleaning. In the present instance I propose to provide a tank adapted to receive water from a suitable point of discharge, such for instance, as the cave pipe of a house, the discharge pipe of a pump or the like, this tank being provided with an attachment through which the water flows under pressure of the water in the tank so that impurities or foreign matter which may have passed into the tank with the water will be carried 05 through the attachment.

A further object of my invention is to provide an attachment for tanks which may be readily and quickly placed in any well known form of tank, even though the latter has been installed, and which will e'liiciently perform the functions for which it is designed.

I also propose to provide a self cleaning tank which will embody the desired features of simplicity and convenience and which may be manufactured and marketed at a relatively low cost.

Vith the above recited objects and others of a similar nature in view, my invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in and falling within the scope of the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view taken through a tank embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same with the cover of the tank removed and showing the suction coil in the bottom. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail perspective view of a por- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1917.

Serial No. 782,268.

tion of the coil and showing the openings in the bottom thereof through which the water is adapted to pass.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings in detail, the letter A indicates a tank which may be of any suitable form or character and made of any desirable material, such for instance as galvanized iron. This tank is preferably provided adjacent its upper end with an opening 1 through which leads a water discharge pipe 2 which may convey the water from any suitable point, such for instance as the cave of a house. The tank is further provided with a top or cover 3, which in the present instance is of approximately conical form and is provided with reinforcing rods 4, the top of said cover being surrounded by a hood 5 having openings 6 therein for the passage of air. The vertical wall of the tank is provided adjacent the bottom thereof with a discharge cock 7. Arranged within the tank and adapted to rest upon the bottom thereof is a circular coil pipe 8, the bottom face of this coil being flattened as at '9 so as to rest upon the bottom of the tank, to which bottom this coil is secured by soldering or other suitable. means. This circular pipe is further provided at the sides thereof with rows or series of openings 10 through which the water may pass. The inner end of the coil pipe is shown at 11 and lies at the center of the coil, while from the outer end 12 of the coil extends a vertical pipe 13 which runs up alongside the inner wall of the tank and is provided at its top end with a discharge 1% which projects through the wall of the tank adjacent the upper edge thereof and preferably at a point below the water line.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of my improved self-cleaning tank will be readily apparent. As the tank fills with water through the inlet pipe 2, it is forced by the pressure into the coil through the openings or apertures 10 in the sides of the coil and passing up through the pipe 13 carries with it any sediment or foreign matter which is discharged through the overfiow or discharge opening 14.

INha-t I claim is:

In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with a tank having an inlet pipe adjacent the top thereof and a dispipe and discharging at a point adjacent the 10 charge valve at the bottom thereof; of a coil top of the tank.

pipe D-shaped in cross section With the fiat In teetimony whereof, I affix my signaportion of the D resting upon the bottom of ture, in the presence of two Witnesses.

the tank, sz id pipe being 131:0Vid6d with a CLIFFORD E GARTRELL. serles of peiforations 1n the side Walls at the junction of said side Walls with the flat por- Vitnesses:

tion of the pipe, and a vertical discharge 7M. BARMORE,

pipe extending upward from the D-shaped C. E. GIBSON.

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i Washington, D. C. 

